Tagged: ACTION OF DAMAGES FOR WRONG

This matter before this Honorable Supreme Court of Liberia is a motion to dismiss an

an appeal filed by Salala Rubber Corporation, the respondent, against Junior Sackie et al., movants. The movants, on allegation made by the respondent, Salala Rubber Corporation, were arrested and tried in the Salala Magisterial Court for multiple crimes including theft of property and criminal trespass. The said prosecution ended into an acquittal for the movants.
Following their acquittal, movants, filed a complaint of unjust treatment against their persons, in an action of “Damages for Wrong’ in the 13th Judicial Circuit Court against the Salala Rubber

This appeal grows out of an action of damages for injury to domestic relations filed on March 14, 2022, by Mr. Andrew Anderson, for himself and on behalf of his two minor children, the appellees, against Mr. Habakkuk Watara Sackor, the appellant, before the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Civil Law Court for Montserrado County.

In his complaint, the co-appellee alleged that he and Mrs. Loraine Dunn Anderson have been married since June 16, 2012; that in their marriage they begot two children, Rachel Juliet Anderson and Andrew Anderson, Jr., both minors; that he and his wife lived in harmony and peace

The appellee, plaintiff below, Counselor Abraham Wade Simpson, filed a damages lawsuit against Kenya Airways, Ltd., the appellant, and the Classic Travel Connections, as 2nd defendant at the court below. The appellee alleged that after purchasing a United States One Thousand Four Hundred Dollars (US$1,400) ticket from Classic Travel Connections for a round trip from Monrovia to Uganda and back, he faced significant travel inconveniences on his return trip to Liberia. The appellee narrated that he successfully traveled to Uganda on March 19, 2019, however, on his return leg to Monrovia, on April 10, 2019, he encountered problems at the

This is an appeal from a final ruling in a declaratory judgment in the court below. When the case was called for hearing, one of counsels who appeared for the appellee, J. Fallah Business Center, made an application on the Court’s record praying for a dismissal of the appeal on ground that the appellant Management of Fahnma Shopping Complex failed to perfect its appeal in keeping with Chapter 51.1 of the Civil Procedure Law, 1LCLR. The appellee’s counsel stated in his application that final judgment in the case was rendered by the Civil Law Court on June 4, 2021, and the appellant excepted thereto and announced an appeal therefrom; that the appellant filed its bill of exceptions on June 15, 2021, a day outside the mandatory ten-day period for the filing of the bill of exceptions; that the notice of completion of appeal was filed on June 17, 2021; that based upon the late filing of the bill of exceptions, the appellee filed a motion to dismiss the appeal in the court below but the trial judge denied the motion, ruling that the appellant had already filed its notice of completion of appeal, thereby divesting the court of jurisdiction to act on the motion. Appellee counsel therefore prayed this Court to dismiss the appellant’s appeal for its failure to file a bill of exceptions within the time required by the appeal statute.